Tag: Italy
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This And That
We had a day of shopping and wandering the streets, once again, in Old Town with a lovely lunch at a sidewalk cafe. Joey and I ate healthily and then there was Jocelyn! The pictures say it all. We found new shops to wander into including all kinds of basketry shops making everything in ratan from chairs and elephant heads to cactus and yes, baskets. Another area of a street featured everything made from wood. There are truly some talented craftsmen in Valencia. Joey finally got to go into the huge Cathedral and although there were a wedding, a mass…
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Fans Plus Three
I left off from my last blog just as we were headed out the door for the event that I wrote about a week ago that we bought tickets for. We were off to a soccer game at the Mestalla Stadium where the Valencia FC team were playing the Alaves, two Spanish teams in the same league. We boarded the Metro around 9pm thinking we were in plenty of time to beat the crowds but the doors opened and we barely got in. The noise level was already at a dull roar and we knew we were in for a night…
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Trip Within a Trip
No, we weren’t run over by a crazy driver, kidnapped or beamed up to an alien ship. We simply took a mini vacation from our vacation and headed to Mallorca, a small island about one hour east of Valencia. The night before leaving, Jocelyn went on line to check us in only to discover that the flight had been delayed four hours so we would be losing a lot of our first day in Palma de Mallorca, the capital. Leaving our flat on Tuesday morning, Joey had a bit of a slip on the stairs and fell on her behind…
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Oceans Alive
We had an amazing day today at the Oceanographic! Opened in 2002, the aquarium is the largest one in Europe housing thousands of types of fish and sea mammals as well as birds. Two 30 meter and 70 meter long, clear domed tunnels let us feel like we were in the tanks with the sharks, eels and other bright, colorful fish. All of the enclosures and habitats were large and gave the animals plenty of room to swim. Each area of the aquarium portrayed a different area of the world featuring its unique floral and fauna from the Medittereaean, the Red Sea, and the…
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On the Go Again!
Another adventure in the planning… that’s what my life is all about. There are always new places to be discovered, new cities to be explored and new friends to make. This time, it’s Spain and Italy that I have chosen to discover. Spain, for the first time, with a return to Italy where, five years ago, I vowed to return. The story begins… One day in the spring of 2015 I was contemplating my upcoming 65th birthday. Well, upcoming in 2016 but a girl’s gotta plan things in advance, right? I knew I wanted to return to Italy and remembered…